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I read the api gateway document. I don't quite understand the use of it. in the end the traffic will be routed to my backend, I will still handle the requests
by billconan 10y ago
I read the api gateway document. I don't quite understand the use of it.
in the end the traffic will be routed to my backend, I will still handle the requests myself. What's the benefit of using a gateway?
- euyyn 10y agoThe idea should be that you don't have to reinvent how to authenticate users (client developer and end user), apply different quotas, charge money, detect abuse, log any of that, nor a number of other things that are common to all APIs. Not sure how much of that does Amazon accomplish, nor to what success.
- Natsu 10y agoI don't know Amazon's solution, but an API Gateway in general helps you abstract public and private APIs from each other. You can change your internal processes without affecting your external APIs, in addition to not having to build authorization, monitoring, etc. into every API separately.